The Ultimate Chuck Berry |  | Artist: Chuck Berry
Label: Spectrum
Category: Music
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Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 3680
Format: Box set, Original recording remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 3
Running Time: 150 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 5 x 1.3
UPC: 602498289198
EAN: 0602498289198
ASIN: B000E8NQTK
Release Date: April 30, 2007
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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Disc 1
| • | Maybellene - Chuck Berry, Phil Chess, Leonard Chess, Johnnie Johnson, Willie Dixon, Ebby Hardy, Jerome Green | | • | Wee Wee Hours - Chuck Berry, Phil Chess, Leonard Chess, Johnnie Johnson, Willie Dixon, Ebby Hardy, Jerome Green | | • | Thirty Days - Chuck Berry, Leonard Chess, Phil Chess, Johnnie Johnson, Willie Dixon, Jasper Thomas, Jerome Green, Unknown | | • | No Money Down - Chuck Berry, Leonard Chess, Phil Chess, Johnnie Johnson, Willie Dixon, Ebby Hardy | | • | Down Bound Train - Chuck Berry, Phil Chess, Leonard Chess, Otis Spann, Willie Dixon, Ebby Hardy | | • | Roll Over Beethoven - Chuck Berry, Phil Chess, Leonard Chess, Johnnie Johnson, Willie Dixon, Fred Below, L.C. Davis | | • | Too Much Monkey Business - Chuck Berry, Leonard Chess, Phil Chess, Johnnie Johnson, L.C. Davis, Willie Dixon, Fred Below | | • | Brown Eyed Handsome Man - Chuck Berry, Leonard Chess, Phil Chess, Johnnie Johnson, L.C. Davis, Willie Dixon, Fred Below | | • | You Can't Catch Me - Chuck Berry, Phil Chess, Leonard Chess, Otis Spann, Willie Dixon, Ebby Hardy | | • | Havana Moon - Chuck Berry, Phil Chess, Leonard Chess, Johnnie Johnson, Jimmy Rogers, Willie Dixon, Fred Below | | • | School Day (Ring Ring Goes The Bell) - Chuck Berry, Phil Chess, Leonard Chess, Johnnie Johnson, Hubert Sumlin, Willie Dixon, Fred Below | | • | Oh Baby Doll - Chuck Berry, Leonard Chess, Phil Chess | | • | Rock And Roll Music - Chuck Berry, Leonard Chess, Phil Chess | | • | Sweet Little Sixteen - Chuck Berry, Leonard Chess, Phil Chess | | • | Reelin' And Rockin' - Chuck Berry, Leonard Chess, Phil Chess | | • | House Of Blue Lights - Chuck Berry, Phil Chess, Leonard Chess, Johnnie Johnson, Unknown, G. Smith, Ebby Hardy | | • | Johnny B. Goode - Chuck Berry, Leonard Chess, Phil Chess, Lafayette Leake, Willie Dixon, Fred Below | | • | Around And Around - Chuck Berry, Leonard Chess, Phil Chess | | • | Beautiful Delilah - Chuck Berry, Leonard Chess, Phil Chess | | • | Carol - Chuck Berry, Leonard Chess, Phil Chess |
Disc 2
| • | Sweet Little Rock 'N' Roller - Chuck Berry, Leonard Chess, Phil Chess | | • | Jo Jo Gunne - Chuck Berry, Leonard Chess, Phil Chess | | • | Merry Christmas Baby - Chuck Berry, Phil Chess, Leonard Chess, Johnnie Johnson, Willie Dixon, Fred Below | | • | Run Rudolph Run - Chuck Berry, Leonard Chess, Phil Chess | | • | Anthony Boy - Chuck Berry, Leonard Chess, Phil Chess | | • | Little Queenie - Chuck Berry, Leonard Chess, Phil Chess | | • | Almost Grown - Chuck Berry, Leonard Chess, Phil Chess | | • | Memphis, Tennessee - Chuck Berry, Leonard Chess, Phil Chess | | • | Back In The USA - Chuck Berry, Leonard Chess, Phil Chess | | • | Childhood Sweetheart - Chuck Berry, Leonard Chess, Phil Chess | | • | Too Pooped To Pop - Chuck Berry, Leonard Chess, Phil Chess | | • | Let It Rock - Chuck Berry, Leonard Chess, Phil Chess | | • | Bye Bye Johnny - Chuck Berry, Leonard Chess, Phil Chess | | • | Mad Lad - Chuck Berry | | • | Betty Jean - Chuck Berry, Leonard Chess, Phil Chess | | • | Down The Road Apiece - Chuck Berry, Leonard Chess, Phil Chess, Johnnie Johnson, Matt "Guitar" Murphy, Willie Dixon, Ebby Hardy | | • | Jaguar And Thunderbird - Chuck Berry, Leonard Chess, Phil Chess | | • | I'm Talking About You - Chuck Berry, Leonard Chess, Phil Chess | | • | Route 66 - Chuck Berry, Leonard Chess, Phil Chess, Johnnie Johnson, Unknown, Reggie Boyd, Ebby Hardy |
Disc 3
| • | Go Go Go - Chuck Berry, Martha Berry | | • | Come On - Chuck Berry, Phil Chess, Martha Berry, Leonard Chess | | • | Nadine - Chuck Berry, Leonard Chess, Phil Chess | | • | No Particular Place To Go - Chuck Berry, Leonard Chess, Phil Chess, Paul Williams, Unknown, Odie Payne | | • | You Never Can Tell - Chuck Berry, Phil Chess, Leonard Chess, James Robinson, L.C. Davis, Johnnie Johnson, Unknown, Odie Payne | | • | Go Bobby Soxer - Chuck Berry, Leonard Chess, Phil Chess, Lafayette Leake, Unknown, Odie Payne | | • | Little Marie - Chuck Berry, Leonard Chess, Phil Chess, Lafayette Leake, Unknown, Odie Payne | | • | Promised Land - Chuck Berry, Phil Chess, Leonard Chess, Lafayette Leake, Unknown, Willie Dixon, Odie Payne | | • | The Things I Used To Do - Chuck Berry, Leonard Chess, Phil Chess, Johnnie Johnson, Unknown, Odie Payne | | • | Dear Dad - Chuck Berry, Leonard Chess, Phil Chess | | • | Lonely School Days - Chuck Berry | | • | It Wasn't Me - Chuck Berry | | • | Tulane - Chuck Berry, Leonard Chess, Phil Chess | | • | Club Nitty Gritty - Chuck Berry | | • | It Hurts Me Too - Chuck Berry, Roy Dea, Boo Frazier | | • | My Ding-A-Ling - Chuck Berry, Esmond Edwards | | • | Reelin' And Rockin' - Chuck Berry, Esmond Edwards |
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Simply The Best. July 1, 2007
RUEBEN AMOS RUNACRE (ENGLAND)
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
I can only reiterate the previous review. I own alot of Chuck Berry cds and this is without a shadow of a doubt the best of the lot. If you are a Chuck Berry fan, as I am and have not already purchased this superb box set, I urge you to buy it now! It has the best sound quality of any of his cds.
the great chuck berry January 29, 2009
William Campbell (glasgow,scotland)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
saw this while i was perusing for something else,typical chuck berry with all the old favourites,excellent compilation a must for chuck berry fans
WHAT I NEEDED MOST.. April 6, 2009
Peter L. Hill (MIDLANDS,UK.)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This collection met all of my expectations including numbers and sound quality.Like most Berry fans had the singles and some albums and needed to get fresh copies in one set which this collection provides the answer.
the ultimate chuck berry July 2, 2009
Clifford A. Hircock (sheffield england)
this is a terrific overview of chucks recording career. the sound is good and the chronolgical presentation is great. whatever your level of interest this is a wonderful collection highly recommended
 almost but not quite the definitive Chuck Berry collection September 5, 2007
freewheeling frankie (north London, England)
28 out of 29 found this review helpful
For any serious, as opposed to obsessive fan, this largely excellent collection contains about as much Chuck Berry as anyone could ever want, and the contents are mostly well chosen. There are a fair number of obscure gems here that will please anyone who's enjoyed a single disc compilation and wondered if there was any more worth hearing: Childhood Sweetheart, Betty Jean, Little Marie (a surprisingly good sequel to Memphis Tennessee using the same tune but far better played and recorded), a fine cover of The Things I Used To Do, plus (nearly) all his classics and some fine minor hits such as Almost Grown, I'm Talking About You, You Can't Catch Me.
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br /So it seems churlish to point out the defects that make this a 4 star collection as opposed to a 5 star one, but defects there are. First and foremost is the omission of the wonderful hit version of Sweet Little Rock And Roller in favour of an alternate version. This isn't just an alternate take but a completely different arrangement. The hit version, with its spine-tingling guitar solo, is essential, this is merely an interesting alternative version, only of interest to completists - and it seems likely the inclusion of the wrong one was careless, not deliberate. Secondly, while the sound quality is good to excellent throughout, far too many of the 60s tunes are presented here in stereo. As a general rule, pop singles (and we are talking rock'n'roll here) from before about 1966 should be presented in mono - the stereo mixes were always an afterthought, the mono ones almost always sound better - as for instance on the Rolling Stones' Singles Collection; note also that the first stereo single was Hey Jude in 1968. These aren't the worst examples I've heard by any means, but what's wrong with the mono versions? And finally, there are a few tunes here that really didn't need reviving. Foremost among these, of course, is the hideous and perhaps unavoidable My Ding-A-Ling, but several far more obscure tunes have either dated badly (Havana Moon), are cheesy, contrived novelties (Too Pooped To Pop) or just lame and out of tune (House Of Blue Lights). It's notable that of those four, Chuck only wrote Havana Moon, and that's a thinly disguised re-write of Louie Louie.
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br /So not a perfect compilation - I'd hoped I'd never need any other Chuck Berry CD but I'm going to have to hold on to the one with the proper version of Sweet Little Rock And Roller on it - but having said all that, 90% of this is completely brilliant, stereo mixes or not, so if you want a lot of Chuck's classics and you're on a budget, this is unbeatable.
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